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SAI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
SESSION 2020-21
CLASS-IX
ECONOMICS- Ch-1- STORY OF VILLAGE PALAMPUR
HOME ASSIGNMENT
SUB-TOPIC- 5
Sale of Surplus Farm Products
Non-Farm Activities in Palampur
Dairy — the other common activity

OBJECTIVE ASSIGNMENT
1 What is done to surplus wheat in Palampur?
a) Sold in the market
b) Destroyed
c) Stocked by self
d) Given in charity
2 People of Palampur sell milk in the near by large village named:
a) Pitampura
b) Siliguri
c) Shahpur
d) Raiganj
3 Kishora is a farm labourer. Like other such labourers, Kishora found it difficult to meet his
family’s needs from the wages that he received. A few years back Kishora took a loan from
the bank. This was under a government programme which was giving cheap loans to poor
landless households. Kishora bought a buffalo with this money. He now sells the buffalo’s
milk.

What is Kishora’s fixed capital?
a) Loan from the bank
b) Wages
c) Buffalo
d) Government Programme
4 Where do most of the small farmers borrow money to arrange for the capital in
Palampur?
a) Banks
b) Co-operative Societies
c) Village money lenders
d) Friends and relatives
5 Which one among the following is a non-farm activity?
a) Multiple croppping
b) Crop rotation
c) Dairy farming
d) Modern farming